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The Deserted
SHORT STORIES. AUSTRALIAN. In this Western Australian collection of short stories the reader is introduced to an enchanted world of dreamy settings, some with long white sandy beaches, endless grey scrub, and open black skies. The collection opens with Hope, a deserted mother with a tiny infant to care for and a mind racked with confusion. The second story deals with two young boys, deserted by their parents, lost and alone and struggling to find their way to safety.There's Ada who lives a double life, is eventually found out, and must face the severe ramifications. And there's Piper and Mimi who meet through a strange set of circumstances and discover a secret they never imagined possible. The Deserted is a cultured and eerie collection of short stories that whisk us away into a world that is very close to our hearts, both in country and in spirit.
The Sonic Self
Using Classical violin music as her principal laboratory, the author examines how a performance incorporates distinctive features not only of the work but of the performer as well--and how the listener goes about interpreting not only the composer's work and the performer's rendering of the work, but the performer's and listener's identities as well. A richly interdisciplinary approach to a very common, yet persistently mysterious, part of our lives.
Watching Water
MODERN FICTION. AUSTRALIAN. Brady Ellis returns to her childhood home in the small coastal town of Little Bay with the hope of escaping her somewhat dismal existence. Settling her six-year-old daughter Cali into school, and living with her mother Bee after thirteen long years is not an easy quest. Brady must first face the life she left behind, her father's death, her mother's absence, and her husband's infidelity, before she can begin to rebuild her carefully constructed life that was so devastatingly crippled in the car accident that caused her to flee the city in the first place. It doesn't take long for Brady to find herself attached to the one thing she promised herself she would never turn to - the bottle. This is a lyrical, naturalistic piece of literature about relationships, family and survival, set in a fictional town in the north of Western Australia.
Uncrowned Queens, Volume 3: African American Women Community Builders of Western New York
Third volume of biographies of African American women community leaders in New York state.
Signs of Music
Music is said to be the most autonomous and least representative of all the arts. However, it reflects in many ways the realities around it and influences its social and cultural environments. Music is as much biology, gender, gesture - something intertextual, even transcendental. Musical signs can be studied throughout their history as well as musical semiotics with its own background. Composers from Chopin to Sibelius and authors from Nietzsche to Greimas and Barthes illustrate the avenues of this new discipline within semiotics and musicology.
Recovery of the Measure
Neville's most significant scholarly contribution is arguably his metaphysical theory of being (or being-itself): a new theory that involves an original solution to the ancient problem of the one and the many. He developed this theory for his PhD dissertation at Yale University (graduated 1963), of which his first book, God the Creator, constitutes a substantial revision. Exploring the implications of that theory has enabled him to produce a philosophy of nature that rivals Alfred North Whitehead's in scope and power, as can be seen from his three-volume Axiology of Thinking. The first volume in that trilogy, Reconstruction of Thinking (1981), was hailed by Donald W. Sherburne?editor of the corrected edition of Whitehead's Process and Reality?as "a truly important book. It is the first genuinely neo-Whiteheadian offering on a large, systematic scale."The second volume of the trilogy, Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature (1989), was also well received. The prominent Confucian scholar and philosopher David L. Hall wrote of it as follows: "Because of its timeliness, the brilliance of its arguments, and the profundity of its conclusions,
The Vinton Memorial
John Vinton was born in approximately 1620 perhaps in France and emigrated to the United States probably sometime before 1643. His descendents lived in Braintree, Massachusetts for many years. This volume gives the history of the Vinton and many other allied families into the 19th century.
Beethoven & Freedom
Over the last two hundred years, Beethoven's music has been synonymous with modernity's 'absolute' value-freedom. Author Daniel KL Chua explores how Beethoven's music engages with freedom's aspirations and dilemmas, challenging the current image of Beethoven, and suggesting an alterior freedom that can speak ethically to the twenty-first century.
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